Software Engineer

Vivid Seats•Toronto, ON

56d•$100,000 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Founded in 2001, Vivid Seats (NASDAQ: SEAT) is a leading online ticket marketplace committed to becoming the ultimate partner for connecting fans to the live events, artists, and teams they love. We believe in the power of experiences and are fiercely dedicated to building products that inspire human connections. Named as one of Built In's top places to work in 2025, we believe that our People are our greatest competitive advantage. To support our People, we have built a company culture that empowers our employees to embrace challenges, encourages unity through collaboration, and seeks to constantly evolve by leveraging data and inspiring innovation. We believe in harnessing emerging technology to power performance and unlock creativity. As part of our culture of innovation, we actively embrace the use of AI tools to enhance decision-making, improve workflows, and produce better outcomes for our customers. As a Software Engineer (Orders), you will build and support systems responsible for the acquisition of multi-million dollar monthly revenue. You will work on the latest technology stack and make decisions which will directly impact the final product. Following software development best practices, you’ll be responsible for developing solutions that scale to the needs of our customers.

Requirements

4+ years of professional software engineering experience, preferably in backend or distributed systems.
Strong Java experience; Spring Boot experience is highly preferred.
Experience building REST APIs, event-driven services, or asynchronous consumers/producers.
Familiarity with relational databases and data-access patterns; MyBatis or similar experience is a plus.
Experience with automated testing, integration testing, CI/CD, and production debugging.
Comfort working with payment, ordering, accounting, tax, fraud, or customer-service systems.
Ability to reason about correctness, idempotency, failure handling, retries, reconciliation, and auditability in transaction-heavy systems.
Strong written and interpersonal communication skills to document and share team best practices across the department.
Exposure to design systems and a/b testing.
A proactive mindset toward embracing, experimenting, and integrating AI tools to drive efficiency, elevate your work, and contribute to a culture of innovation.

Responsibilities

Help lead direction of the technology systems powering our ticket marketplace offerings.
Develop experiments and innovative solutions that give Vivid Seats a competitive advantage, encourage team members, and champion technology improvements for your team.
Work cross-functionally with other development teams and business stakeholders to deliver impact iteratively.
Tackle some of the most difficult challenges scaling an e-commerce marketplace by developing creative algorithms and features that maximize value and efficiency across the organization.
Collaborate to develop and maintain best practices across the software development lifecycle.
Mentor other engineers through pairing, code reviews, and tech talks.